Package 'compIndexBuilder'

Title: Composite Index Builder & Analytics 'shiny' App
Description: Provides an interactive 'shiny' application for constructing, analysing, comparing, and visualising composite indices from tabular multidimensional data. Supports multi-sheet 'Excel' workbooks with active-sheet selection, refresh controls, per-sheet and workbook-wide exports, automatic reshaping of wide indicator-year columns such as 'IN1-2019' into panel form, configurable missing-value code handling, indicator direction and normalisation controls, equal and custom weighting, entity-level ranking, time-series analysis and forecasting, entity comparisons, pillar-based sub-indices with equal, custom, correlation-based, or principal-component weights, and diagnostic tools including internal-consistency reliability assessment, coefficient of variation, principal component analysis, sensitivity analysis, correlation heatmaps, and weighted flow visualizations.
Authors: Hossein Hassani [aut], Steve Macfeely [aut], Petra Kynclova [aut], Nour Barnat [aut], Leila Marvian Mashhad [aut, cre], Fernando CANTU BAZALDUA [aut]
Maintainer: Leila Marvian Mashhad <[email protected]>
License: GPL-3
Version: 2.1.0
Built: 2026-10-13 13:22:30 UTC
Source: https://github.com/cran/compIndexBuilder

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Composite Index Builder and Analytics Shiny Application

Description

Provides an interactive Shiny application for building and analysing composite indices from multidimensional tabular data. Version 2.1 supports multi-sheet Excel workbooks, automatic conversion of indicator-year headers such as IN1-2019 into panel form, configurable missing-value codes, sheet-level exports, data processing, custom and pillar-based weighting, rankings, time-series analysis, forecasting, comparisons, and statistical diagnostics.

Details

Launch the application in an interactive R session with compIndexBuilder().

Author(s)

Hossein Hassani, Steve Macfeely, Petra Kynclova, Nour Barnat, Leila Marvian Mashhad, and Fernando CANTU BAZALDUA.

Maintainer: Leila Marvian Mashhad <[email protected]>

Launch the Composite Index Builder Shiny Application

Description

Launches the interactive Shiny application bundled with compIndexBuilder. The application supports CSV and multi-sheet Excel workbooks, automatic indicator-year wide-to-panel preparation, configurable missing-value handling, composite-index construction, weighting, diagnostics, time-series analysis, forecasting, comparisons, and pillar-based sub-indices.

Usage

compIndexBuilder(...)

Arguments

...

Additional arguments passed to shiny::runApp(), such as launch.browser, host, or port.

Value

Invisibly returns the value returned by shiny::runApp(). The function is primarily called for its side effect of launching the Shiny application.

Examples

if (interactive()) {
  compIndexBuilder()
}